Hindu Goddesses

Hindu Goddesses

by David Kinsley
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Publisher:
Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Genre:Religion
Language: en
Published:1998
ISBN13:9788120803947
ISBN10:8120803949

About the Book

Hindu Goddesses is a valuable sourcebook and reference work for students and scholars of Hindu goddesses and of Hinduism in general. Each goddess is dealt with as an independent deity with a coherent mythology, theology and, in some cases, cult of her own. Within the complex, diverse, and rich goddess traditions of Hinduism, one can find suggestions of nearly every important theme in the Hindu religion. In many ways, this book is as much a study of the Hindu tradition itself as it is a study of one aspect of that tradition. No other living religious tradition has displayed such an ancient, continuous, and diverse history of goddess worship.